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Job 18:5-6
New English Translation
Job 18:5-6
New English Translation
his flame of fire[c] does not shine.
6 The light in his tent grows dark;
his lamp above him is extinguished.[d]
Footnotes
- Job 18:5 tn Hebrew גַּם (gam, “also; moreover”), in view of what has just been said.
- Job 18:5 sn The lamp or the light can have a number of uses in the Bible. Here it is probably an implied metaphor for prosperity and happiness, for the good life itself.
- Job 18:5 tn The expression is literally “the flame of his fire,” but the pronominal suffix qualifies the entire bound construction. The two words together intensify the idea of the flame.
- Job 18:6 tn The LXX interprets a little more precisely: “his lamp shall be put out with him.”sn This thesis of Bildad will be questioned by Job in 21:17—how often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out?
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